Posted on 11/10/2015 4:10:32 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
DETROIT, MI - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's account of being offered a full scholarship at West Point was called into question this week after the military academy said he never applied to the school.
Carson admitted Friday that he never applied to West Point. Rather, the neurosurgeon from Detroit said he was informally offered a scholarship by a top U.S. Army general, but decided not to pursue it.
However, The Detroit News reports that the encounter Carson was referring to, and that is described in his best-selling 1990 autobiography "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story," does not match historical records.
Carson's book says he met with the U.S. Army's chief of staff, Gen. William Westmoreland, on Memorial Day 1969, after marching as a top ROTC cadet for Detroit's former Southwestern High School. But Westmoreland's schedule says he was in Washington that day.
Tomorrow he should talk about being under fire in Benghazi.......then it would be investigated
In other news, Carson is still supporting amnesty, gun control and TPP.
In the words of various Democrats: “It was a long time ago. What difference does it make?”
If anyone who claims to be conservative makes any decision based on the reports of “journalists” these days, then they are not conservatives. Contemporary journalists are the enemy of truth. They are the enemy of all things good. They are liars and fabricators of spin. Nothing more.
I’m not even a Carson fan. He’s my #3 guy at best. But, this is pure BS!
Does Westmoreland’s biography mention his meeting Ben Carson?
Keep trying, MSM.
The only entity thus far with egg, no, make that Obamastuff, on their faces is you low T, lower IQ press.
The sharks circle.
Just because a corrupt liberal rag can’t find something to help an accomplished black republican’s claim proves nothing.
I’ve never believed the story about Westmoreland meeting with Carson, but that still doesn’t change the fact that Carson’s positions on major issues will damage this country drastically. Those policies are what voters need to be looking at.
I am Carson’s age. I can’t remember squat about my scholarship offers, except in a hazy overview.
My thoughts EXACTLY.
When the truth about this guy comes out ‘fully’, I ‘fully’ expect people to defend him to the death. Just as they did with Severe Conservative Mitt Romney. Just to avoid the words “I was wrong”.
Old news. Already been picked to death. The overwhelming consensus about this incident is: no big deal.
I am taking the same tact that the left took with Obama...
So What!!!.... doesn’t matter, this is just a bunch of racists trying to attack a Black Republican...
When he becomes the 45th POTUS we will rubber stamp everything he does because he can do nothing wrong, ever, ever, and ever, ever...
This has already been vetted.
The Army records and Detroit News archival records show Westmoreland was in Detroit on Feb. 18, 1969
True unlike the Larry Sinclair and Obama story there was some real meat there, (LOL) but media and the left just decided to ignore it.
After Hillary, the devil himself couldn’t be indicted for lying.
He’s such a pathetic liar.
Exactly right.
I was a member of a graduating class of 640 students in a Detroit public school in 1968 and I can only give you 6 names that I associated with. Two who graduated a year ahead of me, one who graduated a year behind me and my best friend and two other swim team members........
If anyone else in either my class of 640 or the rest of the entire school were to be asked if they heard of me, they would say who???????
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